shared via นำ้หวาน You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives. And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen. -Aaron Freeman. it's a nice way to take those concepts and apply them to ourselves because we're so intimately involved with the world around us but so many of those phenomena that're occurring happen right under our noses without ever being acknowledged/appreciated just like our heartbeat. just like all the things that allow nature to coexist all of the mechanisms, systems in place. years of changes working together to coexist. it's funny how humanity works so differently. i was just listening to npr this morning about iran and the sanctions (basically a ban on something like trade as a coercive measure to promote a group to do something) that the UN and US have been putting on iran to try to discourage refinement of uranium bc they suspect iran may be trying to gain nuclear weapons technology. iran themselves have stated that they want to be a major power in the middle east, and they also have hystorical beef with israel and there's just all this conflict going on. not just in iran but just between so many countries and dictatorships. there's just this lust for power. in nature it's kind of the same thing between organisms...like predation but yet there exists a certain food chain..but it's driven by instinct and the features that these organisms have been given limit them to that level of the food chain. humanity's different though. we have free will and this certain level of intelligence and ability to create synthetic things that're outside our own natural features and abilities... maybe it's that which poses the largest danger. with that free will, intellect, potential, and power we become the greatest danger to ourselves...